Archive for the 'interaction design' topic

In today’s article, I discuss how to design for two types of challenges. If users are distracted by controlling the interface, they can’t pay attention to the thing they came to do. Here’s an excerpt from the article: Two Dots’ designers also needed to put in tools to control the play of the game, such as changing levels, […]

Mobile, ambient technology, and connected devices are about mediating people’s behavior in their environments. Uncovering the whys and hows that drive behavior takes empathy, hours of observation, and masterful prototyping skills. You’ll succeed when you make, test, iterate, and learn.

Design leaders are unsung revolutionaries. They’re often at the forefront of culture change, advocating for a new conversation about creativity and quality. The old one involved meetings, presentations, and top-down mandates, and little to no input from customers.

The only job of application navigation is to get users to the right screen. Ideally, all of your users should find what they need in 10 seconds or less, and with only a few clicks. But many enterprise app navigation systems fall short. If you’re facing a much-needed nav overhaul and don’t know where to start, it can be overwhelming.

For the longest time, making a great experience for the user was a business-strategy luxury item. A great product only had to work and ship. A great experience was a nice-to-have, not a requirement. Times have changed. The cost of delivering a product is no longer a barrier to entry. Quality is no longer a differentiator. What’s left? The user’s experience.

In this week’s article I talk about authentication as a microinteraction. Here’s an excerpt from the article: Authentication is a necessary evil in today’s world of trust, privacy, and security. It is designed to be selectively usable. A good authentication system needs to be unusable for unwanted intruders. However, it needs to be extremely usable […]

In this three-part online symposium, Designing for Sophisticated Systems, Stephen Anderson, Karl Fast, and Chris Noessel give you timeless strategies to the table for dealing with complex information, whether you are designing visual models, user interactions, or offloading tasks to an Agentive Technology. These three approaches are grounded in concepts that you can apply to your work […]

In this week’s article I talk about how to evaluate microinteractions. Here’s an excerpt from the article: Session timeouts are commonplace, an artifact of how poorly our digital world integrates with our real world. If our laptops could accurately tell that someone else has sat in front of it, we could better protect our users […]

When we add new features, we often force them to break the habits they’ve carefully formed. That’s what makes our users upset when we change the design unexpectedly. Their old habits no longer deliver the value they once did, and now they have to form new ones.

You know it’s worth coming to UX Immersion: Interactions, but does your boss? Use this information and cost summary to help you get the green light. Five Overall Benefits: Conquer chaos and confusion with simpler designs. Lead the team and stakeholders to dynamic collaboration. Overcome daunting requirements and functionality by tackling scale. Identify opportunities and […]